October 23rd, 2017
Stefano Boeri has suggested that a “New Shanghai” made up of Vertical Forests could be built on Mars, should rising sea levels render Earth uninhabitable.
The influential architecture and design magazine Dezeen.com reports about this ambitious Mars-based eco city envisioned by the Italian architect, which would be made up of his studio’s signature plant-covered towers built under giant sealed “space-proof” domes.
The hypothetical project was dreamed up in response to an invitation to imagine what Shanghai might look like in 2117 for Shanghai Urban Space and Art Season (SUSAS) 2017.
Stefano Boeri imagines dome-covered Mars colony with “vertical forests”